Apps & Software

Remember the glory days of the pre-smartphone era, when the only things you did with your handset besides calling people were texting and maybe playing Snake? Those were the days, back when you’d be planning to meet up with frie...

When’s the last time you heard about a feature of a web browser that was actually controversial. It’s certainly not common, but it can and does happen — and Google learned that all too well last month when it released Chrome...

When Google last week announced that it was axing Google+ for consumers, my first reaction was utter shock and disbelief — mostly because I had completely forgotten that Google’s ill-fated attempt at a Facebook clone was even ...

Google released Android 9.0 Pie in early August, with only Pixel and Pixel 2 phones being eligible for the upgrade. Various other smartphone makers offered Pie betas at the same time and some of them will make Android 9.0 availabl...

Adobe didn’t waste any time giving attendees of its Adobe MAX conference something to cheer about on Monday, as the software company announced that Photoshop CC is finally coming to iPad. This isn’t a scaled-down version of th...

Apple reportedly purchased a music analytics company called Asaii, a startup that can supposedly discover new artists well before they become famous. Asaii would mark Apple’s second music purchase of the year after the widely kn...

Facebook recently announced that it’ll also tell you how much time you spend on its apps, joining a brand new trend in tech these days, but that doesn’t mean it necessarily wants you to quit wasting time on Facebook, Instagram...

Apple Music subscribers will now be able to get a little more bang for their buck thanks to an intriguing new partnership with the lyric database site Genius. Earlier today, Genius announced that Apple Music subscribers will now b...

Whenever the cheerful female voice of Google Assistant responds to a query you have or to some other prompt, the interaction might seem pretty transactional to you. You take the info, you move on. But maybe you register for a half...

Soon after Microsoft made the Windows 10 October 2018 update available for download a few days ago, users quickly discovered an annoying bug: the upgrade ended up deleting user data on some systems. Microsoft halted the rollout of...